A "double hopped" (dry hopped) unique American lager based on traditional European Pilsners with a crisp refreshing body and lots of taste. We add hops in the kettle and then again before finishing for aromatic quality.

Medium gold color, medium to large head. Malty lager aroma. A medium bodied lager. Mild malts and somewhat hoppy, if it is DOUBLE hopped after all. Way to sweet, corn adjunct? Not much else to say, but Yes it is a lager. It's not skunky, which is a plus, but it is a metallic and alcohol tasting. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is a little weird tasting, slightly bitter with some corn sweetness.

Pours a light golden color with a decent enough white head that dissipates almost entirely in a couple minutes. Darker than your average macro lager but still quite boring. Boring is a pretty good descriptor for this beer all the way round. The aroma has a touch of the hops that are proudly advertised as having been added not once... not twice... no, wait, it was twice. I guess they just mean that it was dry hopped. Sorry to mock, but, besides a hint of grassiness, this claim has about as much meaning as Miller Lite's "triple hopping." The aroma is mostly simple, sweet malt with some metallic undertones. The flavor is too sweet, and it's really just another boring lager that could have come from a macro brewery. This isn't the bottom of the barrel or anything, but it's boring and extremely skippable.

Picked up a 12 oz bottle of this from Whole Foods. It says double hopped right on the label, so you know it's going to be some seriously hoppy stuff.

It pours clear, golden, pale, somewhat lagery. The head recedes to a thin collar pretty quickly.

The nose is decently hoppy, herbal and lightly spicy in character. There's a bit of cooked corn and pale malt right up there with the hops, and a mild metallic twang. Fairly bland overall.

It tastes like...not much. Corn, mineral water, light malty sweetness. I guess double hopping wasn't enough, because there's only a trace of hop flavor. The finish is slick and utterly void of any sort of flavor - it's more of a texture. Pretty bland and watery.

Surprisingly the mouthfeel was not bad. The body was thicker than the appearance would suggest, and while the carbonation was there it was rather subdued but still enough of a presence to give the beer a slight crispness.

Overall this is barely a step up from your typical macro. It's far too sweet for my liking, and there are much better examples of this style available.

The Black Star pours a classic golden pilsner in the glass with a thick white froth, decent retention, & pretty good lacing. (I poured the beer pretty aggressively thinking that the beer wouldn't hold up, but it's doing pretty good!) There really isn't much on the nose, subtle orange peel, biscuit, cereal grains...yep...that's pretty much it. The beer is smooth & crisp on the palate with a smooth dryness, light body, & average finish. In terms of flavor, there really isn't much here. The beer doesn't taste bad, but it doesn't really taste like much of anything. Overall, I'm left unimpressed with this beer. The beer looks great in a glass, but doesn't deliver. When reaching for this on the shelf....stop what you're doing & reach for something else.

This is clearly a marketing push to make a beer name, as opposed to a good beer finding the market. Sadly, they have renamed the side of the brewery after this mediocre brew. This is NOT the beer you should be drinking at the Great Northern....

Anyhow, Typical lager notes. The double dry hopping must be extremely light - there is no more detectable hops than that of PBR. Again, marketing ploy (Hmm, similar to Miller's Triple Hopped beer perhaps?)Perhaps a touch grassy... likely due to the dry hopping?

However, I tasted a heavy butterscotch (prolly diacetyl ) notes in the beer. I just found it overpowering enough not to finish. Not sure if it was a tap issue, batch issue or what. But left me seriously unimpressed.

This could be a great brewery, but seems like it's marketing dept is driving it's image - not it's beers.

Picked up a 12 pack at whole foods. The price seemed right and it sounded promising. Poured in to a typical pint glass and produced almost no head. The beer its self is like a dark golden yellow with a fair amount of carbonation. There is almost no smell to speak of which was a let down, because this beer claims to be double hoped and im not getting that in the nose at all. All im getting in the nose is a grassy smell not to far off from PBR. Taste isnt to far off from PBR as well. This beer falls flat of its face in the hop department. There is no way its double hopped. An easy drinking beer thats a step up from Miller or PBR but thats about it.

Purchased as a sixer from South Point hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV - poured into insulated coffee mug.. and other vessels

Pours yellow with average head. Smells.. like.. well not hops! I say if you put "double hopped" on the label it damn well better smell like hops or at least be bitter.. but yeah.. neither. Smelled corny just like any old am lager. Taste followed unfortunately not much going on at all and it was a bit too bubbly.

This has a golden color with a foam that sticks around. Not a lot of discernible aroma. It does have a light sweet finish. Scant praise, I know. I feel like I’m reaching. They advertise it as being “double hopped,” but maybe a 3rd addition would give it some actual flavor. This is pretty lousy beer.

So I was at a local bottle shop last Friday and they were doing a free - yes free - tasting of this beer. I'm used to paying a buck or two so I thought, shit, it's free what the hell ya know? I had zero expectations for this beer.

It's a lager - something I haven't been drinking much of lately. I was on a German kick for awhile but that was a few years back. But I digress.

The beer had a nice white head on it - a good inch or so. No real smell or rather no appealing smell. Typical lager smell if I can say that.

Ya know - this beer is okay... for what it is. Can it stand up next to a Black Raven Trickster? Hell no - but that wouldn't be fair.

It's smooth with minimal taste. On a hot day - yeah, I could drink a few of these - that is if I was out of craft beer.

Nose: Nothing much, some very light barley, biscuits. A bit of hop fruitiness.

Taste: Honestly nothing but a little malt sweetness.

Notes: It says Colorado on the label, but it is brewed in Wisconsin, which makes me wonder who owns the brewery. Its better than a macro, but only slightly. I guess I am suspicious of "old, family owned" breweries that have million dollar websites overnight. Just a thought.

Appearance is golden color with a thin crisp head dissapating quickly. Smell has a clean smell of a lager, but more aroma than just your regular American lager. Taste again has that clean taste of malt and a bit more bitter in the hop leaving that dry lager bitter. Mouthfeel is light-medium with a good spike of carbonation. Nothing complex, but a fair drinker.

T/M-Crisp, grainy, dry. Fizzy. Standard macro-style lager. "Double hopped" doesn't necessarily mean anything, as most beers are at least double hopped. I get no distinct hop character from this aside from light, barely perceptible structural hops, which add almost nothing to the overall flavor.

T - Basic lager taste. A bit more hoppy, but not much. A hint of vanilla in the after taste - that is why I have it an average taste review. If it wasn't for that vanilla aftertaste it would have been lower.

M - a bit more full bodied than I expected.

D - Good drinker. Refreshing.

If this was a lower price I would probably buy it in the summer as a lawnmower beer.